> Why not use a real loadbalancer - either hardware or software like LVS?
Because sometimes you should give people the solution they ask for instead of the solution you would build for yourself. ======================================= Then why did you suggest "NLB + JRun/JBoss cluster" when neither of those provide application aware balancing? Rick asked for this: "if one instance stops responding (due to failure or high load), force requests onto the available instance." And this is from Microsoft's site: "NLB doesn't detect application failure. For example, a Web Server service may stop but NLB will still send TCP/IP requests to that server." Russ, I think Rick already basically answered the question of why he isn't using something more advanced when he said "I don't have a setup that warrants having multiple physical servers and a hardware load balancer". Even LVS would not only require him to use Linux, but have an additional physical server to control the load balancing. ~Brad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:305259 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
